You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quote
“Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.”
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